You can really see this with Chainsaw Man in specific, where the entire conversation pretty much turned into a debate on how it was somehow a critique of the genre and provably Not Like Those Other Girls - because referring to it *as* a battle manga seemed equivalent to concession.

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See, what people don't understand is that the reason why this is is because a sizeable chuck of people need some way to create a battle manga which won't develop a conservative fanbase. They failed with One Piece, and now they're constantly trying to find The One which won't attract the chuds.

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It's all an extension of the larger narrative surrounding JP media in leftist spaces. That anime and manga is at least semi-affiliated with the online-right, and thus the goal of the culture war is to eliminate them. The fiction cannot just be fiction, it must be the battleground.

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It's al kinda....meaningless, really. It's people obsessed with fighting bigots and grifters who will never actually care, while never really engaging with art itself beyond a surface level. Just circular fighting without point. Like, guys, just read Ichi the Witch, please. You'll thank me.

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I firmly believe that all of these Capcom movie/TV show adaptations are the result of them chasing the high that was the 208 episode + 1 movie Megaman Battle Network anime

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